<h4>Tool</h4><table border="0"><tr><td valign="top"><b>Name</b></td><td valign="top">Mass Balance Index</td></tr><tr><td valign="top"><b>ID</b></td><td valign="top">10</td></tr><tr><td valign="top"><b>Author</b></td><td valign="top">(c) 2008 by O.Conrad</td></tr><tr><td valign="top"><b>Specification</b></td><td valign="top">grid</td></tr></table><hr><h4>Description</h4>
References:

Friedrich, K. (1996): Digitale Reliefgliederungsverfahren zur Ableitung bodenkundlich relevanter Flaecheneinheiten. Frankfurter Geowissenschaftliche Arbeiten D 21, Frankfurt/M., <a href="http://user.uni-frankfurt.de/~relief/fga21/">online</a>.

Friedrich, K. (1998): Multivariate distance methods for geomorphographic relief classification. in Heinecke, H., Eckelmann, W., Thomasson, A., Jones, J., Montanarella, L., Buckley, B. (eds.): Land Inforamtion Systems - Developments for planning the sustainable use of land resources. European Soil Bureau - Research Report 4, EUR 17729 EN, Office for oficial publications of the European Communities, Ispra, pp. 259-266, <a href="http://eusoils.jrc.it/ESDB_Archive/eusoils_docs/esb_rr/n04_land_information_systems/contents.html">online</a>.

Moeller, M., Volk, M., Friedrich, K., Lymburner, L. (2008): Placing soil-genesis and transport processes into a landscape context: A multiscale terrain-analysis approach. Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, 171, pp. 419-430, DOI: 10.1002/jpln.200625039

<hr><h4>Parameters</h4><table border="1" width="100%" valign="top" cellpadding="5" rules="all"><tr><th>Name</th><th>Type</th><th>Identifier</th><th>Description</th><th>Constraints</th></tr>
<tr><th colspan="5">Input</th></tr><tr><td>Elevation </td><td>Grid (input)</td><td>DEM</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Vertical Distance to Channel Network (*)</td><td>Grid (optional input)</td><td>HREL</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><th colspan="5">Output</th></tr><tr><td>Mass Balance Index</td><td>Grid (output)</td><td>MBI</td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><th colspan="5">Options</th></tr><tr><td>T Slope</td><td>Floating point</td><td>TSLOPE</td><td></td><td>Minimum: 0.000000
Default: 15.000000</td></tr><tr><td>T Curvature</td><td>Floating point</td><td>TCURVE</td><td></td><td>Minimum: 0.000000
Default: 0.010000</td></tr><tr><td>T Vertical Distance to Channel Network</td><td>Floating point</td><td>THREL</td><td></td><td>Minimum: 0.000000
Default: 15.000000</td></tr></table>(*) <i>optional</i>